USN-3891-1: systemd vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain D-Bus messages. A local unprivileged attacker could exploit this in order to crash the init process, resulting in a system denial-of-service (kernel panic).

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